“Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame.”

– The Day of the Doctor

One of the first things I did when I got my printer, back at the end of 2020, was of course to download Sir John Hurt and print him at 1:19 scale.

One of my key motivations for getting a 3D printer was to create figures for the railway. It wasn’t John Hurt in particular I had in mind, but there’s not only a fine drawing of him on Thingiverse, it also allowed me to connect two of my main interests – railways and Doctor Who – and of course there is no limit to the number of Doctors Who that you can have on a model railway, since (s)he is a time traveller!

The drawing wasn’t in 1:19 scale, but the internet says Hurt was 5’9″ so I used that to scale him.

I think I need to work on painting eyes…